Our fourfooted friends and how we treat them

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Our Fourtooted Friends

AND HOW WE TREAT THEM

EDITED BY MRS. HUNTINGTON SMITH

VOLUME 2 NUMBER 11 FEBRUARY, 1904

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CONTENTS

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What Humane Workers are Doing.......... 2 Lights and Shadows of Humane Work...... 8
Stories that are Said to be True............ 3 Care of our Useful Friends ................10
BEES PMOUCATION . 2 oe Sas be ate Wile eases 6 League News and Notes...................12

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FRANKIE RATZ ROBINSON. A Member’s Dog.

2 Our Fourfooted Friends

WHAT HUMANE

me WORKERS ARE DOING

There is a good work going on in Newark, New
Jersey, called the Humane Society Shelter, which
Miss Grace V. Halsey organized only a year ago,
yet the work has progressed so rapidly that from
using a stall in a barn, it is now carried on in a
house, a horse and wagon have been purchased, and
the city has shown its appreciation by an appropria-
tion of two thousand dollars to assist carrying on the
Over twenty-four hundred calls were an-
swered in December. There is a veterinary de-
partment where not only the homeless sick dogs
and cats are attended to, but private citizens bring
It is expected

work.

their own animals for treatment.
that a children’s auxiliary to the society will soon
be started. i

About fifty of the leading professional and so-
ciety people of New Albany, Indiana, have just
incorporated a Humane Society to protect children
and animals. When these two causes cannot be
treated separately the work must be done in this
way, but it has been observed that where the two
are combined the children usually get about all the
attention and financial aid the society is able to give.

The Humane Society of Peoria, Illinois, appeals
to the housewives to assist it in its work. The
society is greatly interested in the work of alle-
viating the condition of the numerous delivery
horses used in this city, many of which are over-
worked and overdriven. In slippery weather the
condition of many of these faithful animals is oft-
times pitiful. Slipping and sliding on the icy
streets in an effort to respond to the demands for
speed made upon them by impatient drivers, who
are acting under the urgent demands of the “boss,”
the poor animals are’ put to much useless suffer-
ing. The society requests housewives to consoli-
date their grocery orders, instead of making the
grocery boy make a separate trip for individual
orders or articles. -This is an important matter
just at this time, especially with grocery and meat
orders. Other humane societies and individuals
may profit by this suggestion.

Several prominent citizens of Indianapolis have
offered to assist in the prosecution of -the entire
faculty of the Eclectic Medical College on the
charge of vivisecting a little pet poodle dog be.
longing to Mr. W. N. Parks. Mrs. Phelps’s pa-
thetic story of Loveliness shows only what is of
frequent occurrence in real life and will be until
civilization is more advanced.

London News

About a year:ago Our Dumb Friend League,
which has on its Executive Committee the Mar-
chioness of Donegal, the Countess of Shaftesbury,
Lady Brackenburg and Mrs. Haydn Coffin, started
an ambulance for injured horses in London,
and so beneficial have been the results that an-
other of more improved type has been put on
the streets, and it is further intended to provide
every metropolitan borough with such an am-
bulance, twenty-six being needed to complete
the corps. The new ambulance, which was
made by a Philadelphia firm, is so constructed
that a horse if totally. disabled can by means
of a winch be speedily hauled in on a plat-
form travelling along two wooden rails. A
well known woman has proposed to present the
league with a third wagon, and Mrs. Hayda
Coffin, with her husband, is organizing a special
matinee at the West End Theatre, with the pro-
ceeds of which she hopes to be able to provide
a fourth.

Another society doing good work in connec-
tion with relieving the sufferings of dumb animals
is the Dogs’ Protection League, which is now
taking women probationers who will undergo 4
thorough course of dog nursing. -At the end of
the course the canine nurse will undergo exami-
nation and will then receive a certificate from
the league, which will then, should she pass, send
her out to cases the same way as a human nurse.
Those who have experienced the weariness of
night and day nursing of some old favorite will

greatly appreciate the chance of trained help at a a

moderate figure.

A hospital, boarding house and ‘ pension” for
dogs and horses is to be started in Detroit.

are owned, boarded for a limited period of time.

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Protecting the Quail
Some hunters are deploring the fact that farm-

_ ers are protecting the quail from ruthless slaughter,
_ notwithstanding the statement that they are more

plentiful this winter than for several years past.
_ Farmers have learned by bitter experience that the

destruction of the birds means a loss of crops, and
they are determined hereafter to make friends with
them. A covey of quail will destroy a bushel of
_chinchbugs in the course of a season, and a bushel
_of chinchbugs can destroy a good many bushels of
wheat. The Rural World estimates that each
quail on a farm is worth two dollars per year to
the farmer in wheat alone. It is, therefore, self-
_ protection that is causing the farmer to protect the
_ birds.—Osceola Democrat.
_ All humane persons are rejoicing that President
Roosevelt is discountenancing the use of dock-

tailed horses. The Duke of Portland, who is

Master of Horse to King Edward, is an ardent op-
' ponent of this cruel and inartistic fad.

_ Treasurer Millard of the Nebraska Humane So-
ciety has announced that arrangements have been
completed for the formal opening of the home for
friendless dogs, cats, goats, horses and animals of
all kinds at the city pound. The society has en-
gaged the services of a boy who, when notified over

the telephone of the whereabouts of any starving, .

freezing or injured animals, will at once go after
them and take themtothe pound. They will there
be taken care of and fed for ten days. Then, if
no owner appears, they will be asphyxiated.

Mrs. Frederick H. Alms has sent the Humane
Society of Cincinnati a check for five hundred
dollars in memory of her late husband. Mrs.
Alms designates that part of this money is to be
used to prevent the docking of horses’ tails, and that
the remainder go to the founding of the Rescue
Home for Dogs. Special Officer James Allen and
the officers of the Humane Society are very anxious
to complete the home for stray animals, and have a
‘place somewhat on the order of the home in Bos-
ton. About three or four thousand dollars will be
“required for the home here. The society has a
beautiful property on the Baltimore pike, which
will be utilized for the purpose. :

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Birds in Millinery

An amendment to section eight of chapter ninety-
two of the Massachusetts Revised Laws which was
passed by the last legislature and which went into
effect the first of the year will materially affect
the millinery business. The amendment adds to
the law to prohibit the taking or killing of any un-
domesticated birds, and also prohibits the use of
the birds or any portion of them for decorative
purposes or for dress. The use of common birds
for this purpose is punishable by a fine of ten dol-
lars, and it is the intent of local authorities to en-
force this law. Especially will the milliners be
affected, and it is alleged that a great majority have
birds in stock in large quantities and are doing
business in them. Hats are being trimmed with
them, and the hats are being worn. It is a viola-
tion of the law for people to wear birds as orna-
ments on the streets, and a person doing sc is liable
to arrest and conviction.

STORIES THAT ARE

SAID TO BE TRUE

If some one could and would keep a record of
the lives that were saved every year by dogs and
cats the world would be surprised at the result.
In recent papers there are some interesting state-
ments given of such happenings.

In Chicago, Ill., January 10, Mrs. McNeill was
soundly sleeping alone in her cottage. Suddenly
she was awakened by her cat who jumped on her
bed and clawed at her arm. She then found the
room was full of smoke and without stopping to
dress she barely escaped from the burning house.
Let us hope that she took the cat with her.

A little black and white fox terrier saved the
lives of Mr. and Mrs. Pickering of East Manches- -
ter, N. H. He forced open the door of their
sleeping room and barked so vigorously that he
awakened them, when they found their room was
bright with the reflection of a fire in the factory
attached to their residence. They escaped in their

night clothes, walking through the snow to the
nearest house, the dog, which was a great pet,
having undoubtedly saved them from suffocation in
the burning building.

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Mrs. Annie Davis, wife of Milton Davis of
West Alexander, Va., narrowly escaped death
by burning. She was standing in front of the gas
stove grate, when suddenly her clothing caught fire
from the flame. At the time she had a heavy
woolen shawl over her shoulders, and having the
proper presence of mind, ran out into the yard and
threw herself in the deep snow. She was com-
pletely enveloped in flames, and her action did
considerable toward checking their progress. Mr.
Davis had recently purchased a shepherd dog, and
the animal seemingly realized the dangerous situa-
tion of his mistress. The dog barked and ran to
the barn, where Mr. Davis was attending to his
stock. This attracted Mr. Davis’s attention, and
thinking that something was wrong, opened the
barn door and immediately came to the rescue of
his wife.

A little dog ran up to a door in the rear of a
cottage in Detroit, Michigan; and whined pitifully.
A neighbor thought the animal’s action was pecu-
liar, notified the police, who discovered a maiden
lady, Sarah Boody, almost asphyxiated from the
fumes of a coal stove which was burning in her
room.

Charles A. Mills, his wife and two children had
a narrow escape from being suffocated by coal gas
at Norristown, Pennsylvania, and they probably
owe their lives to the family watchdog. When
Mills, a barber, awakened at three o’clock and started
to investigate the continued barking of a dog in
the kitchen, he found the house filled with gas from
the kitchen stove, and himself, too weak to move
about. He staggered through the house, opening
the windows as he went, and with difficulty aroused
his wife and two children, who were overcome,
and have not yet recovered from the effects.

Dr. West C. Bowen, at one time a wealthy vet-
erinary surgeon, was found unconscious from cold
and lack of food recently in a bare little room
over a stable in State street, between Boerum place
and Court street, Brooklyn. <A passing policeman
had his attention attracted to Dr. Bowen by the in-
cessant barking of a small dog, the man’s only
companion. An ambulance took Dr. Bowen to
the Long Island College Hospital.

Two Loyal Friends

The New York Herald has an interesting story
of a boy andadog. Graustark is a big Newfound-
land dog. Since he was a woolly little puppy
three years ago he has been Arnold Roberts’s con-
stant companion and playmate. They had grown
up together and were wellnigh inseparable. But
cruel circumstances decreed that they must part.
The captain’s home on Staten Island was to be
closed for the winter. The captain was going for
a long cruise, Mrs. Roberts had engaged a board-
ing place in the city for the winter, and Arnold was
to be sent away to boarding school. Graustark
was to go to sea in his father’s bark.

For weeks the lad had pleaded not to be sepa-
rated fromthe dog, but his appeals were in vain.

_At daybreak was the time set for the sailing of the

bark. Cautiously Captain Roberts stole out of the
house, taking Graustark with him. Reaching the
dock they put off in a small boat and were rowing
toward the bark, which lay well out in the stream,
when Graustark, with a howl of alarm, sprang
from the boat and began to swim toward shore.
From a little dot that bobbed up and down in the
water came the agonized cries of the boy. All -
night he had watched for the dreaded moment and
when he heard the door close behind his father and.
Graustark he crept out and followed them to the
wharf. In his agony of grief he either leaped or
fell into the water, and the big Newfoundland was
the first to hear his feeble outcry.

The bark 2tna sailed at sunrise, but Graustark
did not go to sea. Drenched, chilled and clinging
to each other, boy and dog were hauled out of the
water by men who were attracted by the outcries.
They will never be separated again.

A Pet Horse

Harlow and Raymond, two Wayne County lads,
sons of Farmer Harvey Bennett of Wayne County;
New York, have been training a pet horse for the

past few months until he has come to display an in-

telligence almost human. The lads attend the Rice
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Each morning they drive the horse to school, then
they start him towards homealone, which he reaches
in safety, turning out for teams and rounding several
corners on the way, In the afternoon the hors¢ is
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_ tainty which marks the homeward journey. The

horse, though young and ‘frisky while being driven,
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_ as an old stager while going alone.

ELFIE. Rescued and Adopted by a Member of the League.

A Perilous Ride

A cat that sought shelter on the forward truck
of the New York newspaper train was carried
from Albany to Utica, where she was found ina
benumbed state, so covered with snow that at
first she was thought to be frozen to death. She
-was restored to life and fed and became the pet
of the station. Professor Wilder of Cornell Uni-
versity, having heard of her wonderful ride and
endurance, wrote a request to have her sent to him,
so poor pussy was to be started off on another
journey where we will hope she will receive the
tender care and attention she ought to get after her
vicissitudes.

Annual Pass for a Dog

Dewey a fox terrier, whose home is in Rye,
will be the first dog honored with a regular annual
railroad pass. Dewey has been a traveller on the
New York, New Haven & Hartford road for
several years. Hitherto he has been deadheaded
or supplied only with trip passes, but now train-

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men along the line have. made application to the
Passenger Department for an annual. It will be
put ina silver case and Dewey will wear it about
his neck whenever he wants to make a trip.

James Grant, agent of the Adams Express Com-
pany at Port Chester, is supposed to be the owner
of the dog, but Dewey regards any man on the
line who wears the company’s uniform as his
friend and makes himself perfectly at home in
any station on the road.

‘Dewey refuses to live at his owner’s home in
He has a little corner fitted up as
his home in the express office at Rye, and that
place is his permanent address. :

Two Stories Written by Children of the Helen Weld

House
MY FRIEND BESSIE

I am going to tell you about myself, because I
want you to know of a little girl’s kindness to me.
Now I will tell you what kind of an animal I am.
I’m a—cat. You can’t understand my language
when I talk, but you can readthis. Iwas brought
up by a lady who was kind until she was about to
move away from her house; then she used to say,
‘¢] don’t like this cat one bit. I wish some one
would drown it.” This used to make me sad and
sorry that I was such a nuisance to her.

When she moved she left me. I was very un-

happy. Everybody seemed to turn against me. I
‘was kicked and I had stones thrown at me until

I had sores all over my body.

Some time after that another lady moved into the
house where I used to live. She had a little girl
named Bessie. Bessie was very kind to me. She
used to ask the boys not to throw stones at me.

Sometimes they would obey her and sometimes:

would not. Bessie was told how lastsummer the
boys and girls used to throw brooms, stones, tin
cans and everything they could get hold of at me.

Bessie bought, with some money a kind lady gave
her for me, a little milk.

The lady that lived under Bessie’s mother’s rooms
used to set her dog on me whenever Bessie tried
to feed me. But whenever I came back she fed
me again.

Bessie tried to gain my love and got it, but my
sores were so bad that she sent me to the Animal
Rescue League, where I am to-day, well cared for,

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A STOLEN RIDE

One bright winter morning Minnie took the train
for Providence all by herself. Not a word had she
said at home about it. What she did it for nobody
knows.
pretty gray coat and white mittens. She had a
blue bow under her chin and looked very pretty as
she went in the cars.

People looked at her with surprise as she passed
along the aisles. But she moved very quietly, only
humming a little song to herself.
afraid at all, so everybody thought she was used
of going alone.

She curled herself up on the windows. The
car went rumbling on with Minnie enjoying her
stolen ride. Pretty soon the conductor came by,
but in some way missed Minnie and did not ask
for her ticket. What she would have done if he
had she didn’t know. She neither had ticket nor
money.

When the cars stopped a lady came in and took
a seat by Minnie. She wore a pretty dress of soft
brown cashmere. Minnie touched her with one
of her mittens. The lady smiled and talked to
her awhile. She gave her a jumble out of her
bag. The conductor knows, I suppose, thought
the lady. Perhaps she belongs to him.

Rumble, rumble, went the car and Minnie grew
drowsy. Soon she was fast asleep. The train
reached Mansfield. In came a gentleman in a
great hurry, looking ‘about right and left. The
first thing Minnie knew he ie her up and
carried her into the station.

The gentleman looked kind and patted her head,
but he did not tell her what he was going to do.
Minnie had_half a mind to cry, but she didn’t.

When the train came along he gave her to an-
other gentleman, and this one carried her into the
car. He took care of her all the way back to
Boston. Do youthink Minnie thanked him? Not
a bit. .

Do you wonder how he knew where she lived?
Just this way. She was missed from home and
word was sent to Mansfield. Her home was in
Providence.

But there she was all wrapped up in her °

She did not feel .

Do you think she was a naughty girl and was
sent to bed? She was not a little girl at all, but a

pussy cat. This is a true story.
HUMANE
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No more important study could be introduced
into our schools then humane education. Upon
it the future happiness and peace of our country
depend. Ella Wheeler Wilcox gives a good illus-
tration of this need in an article on kindness. She
says: ‘*At White Plains, New York, lives a mil-
lionaire whose sons have had all the advantages
wealth can offer. Here is their idea of sport, as
related by the daily press: ‘The boys recently gave
a surprise party to some visitors by arranging a
wolf hunt for their amusement. A caged wolf
belonging to their father was freed and the hounds
sent after it. Several of the hounds were almost
killed, but the youngsters voted it great sport.’

‘‘One’s heart grows sick with disgust and pity
at the thought of such needless cruelty and suffer-
ing. Imagine the sons of wealth, with all things
at command for pleasure, caging a wild beast and
then giving it freedom, only to pursue it with
hounds and guns,—not to protect life or to provide
food, but to gratify a savage taste for torture and
bloodshed. Shame on the father and mother of
such sons! They belong back in the old ages of
torture and ignorance, not in the enlightened and
progressive present. Race suicide is preferable to
the propagation and perpetuation of such beings.”

The Audubon and Humane societies of Iowa
are uniting in the effort to secure legislation against
pigeon shooting from traps. Trap-shooting is one
of the most refined forms of cruelty ever prac-
tised, and the fact that it has never been abolished
in Iowa is a proof that legislation is needed.
Hunters and so-called sportsmen know the methods
employed, but to the uninitiated the following ex-
planation of a live-bird shoot is necessary: The
pigeon is sprung up on a trap from underground
in a dazed condition, which prevents its immediate
flight. It is bound to be hit, but death is not the

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worst that can happen to it. If a wing or beak is
broken or a leg shot away, or the bird is partially
disembowelled, while it still has strength to fly,
several days of torture are Lound to ensue before
death mercifully puts an end to its sufferings.
The birds who are spared will always be crippled.
The unnecessary killing is denounced as an out-
rage, but the sportsman is not to be wholly deprived
of his trap shooting. The Audubon Society is
merely asking that an inanimate target be used.
The clay pigeon provides as much sport as the
live one, and prevents the death and maiming of

the thousands that are used as targets at a pigeon~

shoot. The action has the support and hearty
approval of such men as George F. Hoar, D. B.
Henderson, J. P. Dolliver, James Wilson and
Ernest Thompson Seaton.

A bird that has been shut in a cramped cage for
hours and sometimes days, with a doubtful amount
of feeding and probably no water, is too dazed and
stiff and weak to be a fair target for a true sports-
man. At some pigeon shoots the birds are all
nearly killed, but very often the residents in close
proximity to these pigeon traps bring in woeful
tales of the birds which have escaped injured and
are found at a distance crippled and dying of starva-
tion.

When the anti-pigeon shooting bill came before
the New York legislature a few years ago the
most effective evidence was given by Horace E.
Henderson, the master of St. Paul’s School, Gar-
den City, Long Island.

He said that many wounded pigeons were found
bleeding and freezing on the snow after a ‘‘shoot”’
that winter, and that he had found dying pigeons
among the pipes of the organ of the chapel of the
school, and dozens of maimed birds were on the
window sills and doorsteps in that neighborhood.

The opposition tried to show that the sport was
not cruel and that the bill should not be passed,
because in a recent tournament only seven hundred
birds out of forty thousand, it was said, were not
killed within the grounds. The fact that seven
hundred birds fluttered away wounded and perhaps
dying was regarded by the opposition as too trivial
a matter to be considered.

Seventy per cent of the residents of Garden City
signed a petition for the abolishing of this bird

massacre. Many of them objected to the ceaseless
popping of guns near their homes, and many more
were loath to find the little bleeding creatures scat-
tered about their premises awaiting a slow death,
where the children too would witness such cruel
deeds. Some one told of two little girls who came
home sobbing with two of the wounded birds in
their hands which they had found in the snow-cov-
ered fields. .Last year the New York Tribune
made the following remarks : \

‘sMany of the birds which are used for targets
are instantly killed. Let us grant that the great
majority of them thus perish, with only a moment
of agony. Even then it is revolting, this killing
for the.mere sake of killing. The destruction of
noxious serpents or dangerous beasts of prey is”
laudable. The killing of animals for needed food
or useful skins is pardonable. But the wholesale
butchery of innocent and beautiful creatures just
for the sake of killing them in savagery pure and
simple.”

The Animal Language

I prefer to refer to animals as my friends in “ furs
and feathers” instead of calling them ‘‘ dumb.”
‘I suppose people call them ‘‘ dumb ” because they
cannot understand them,—a very poor reason,
which would be ruled out in any court of justice.
I have made a very close study of the animal king-
dom, and have come to the conclusion that all ani-
mals have a language of their own, which is
oftentimes understood by other species. One has
not to be a very ardent observer to see that they
not only use a language between each other, but
that they .make themselves understood as intelli-
gently as the average American citizen. I will
give you a few illustrations which will help to
make my statement clearer. How often have I
seen a couple of birds hopping around in apparent
happiness, talking to each other as plain as any
couple of human beings ever did. Their after life
when mated shows what they were talking about.
As soon as they have finished their bargain
they select the location for a habitation and
commence to build it, helping each other. Have
you ever overheard the conversation between the
male and_ female bird as they relieve each other in
the care of the family? I have, and God forbid I

8 Our Fourfooted

‘should give an exhibition of my ignorance by call-
ing them ‘‘dumb.”

Have you ever watched a mother hen with her
chickens? If so, how can you doubt that the
mother is constantly talking to her children and
that they understand her? The little fellows know
when the mother is calling them to partake of food,
just as they understand when she tells them there is
danger in the air.

Have you ever watched the language used by a
mare when she wishes to impart a message to her
colt? If you have you are bound to agree with me
that they understand each other. I might make
the same statement in regard to a cow and her calf
and any other specie. Don’t you know that do-
mestic animals know when it is feeding time and
speak approvingly when the person comes near to
feed them?

Here is a pretty illustration.
once had two cats—mother and daughter—who hap-
pened to have kittens at the same time, one in the
shed adjoining the dwelling house, the other in the
barn. One day the younger cat came home from
the woods in a most pitiable condition, having had
a fight with some other animal. The poor creature
suffered greatly and could hardly drag her body
along.

Now listen to what took place: The wounded
cat went to her mother and they had some kind of
conversation ; when finished, the wounded cat car-
ried her kittens over to her mother who tenderly
nursed them. Can we doubt that the two talked
things over and agreed upon a plan? One of my
sons, who is a veterinary surgeon, treated the cat
cand she regained her health. Besides the lesson
that these two cats talked together and understood
each other we have the beautiful lesson of mother
Jove, that this cat in the midst of pain could think
lovingly of her kittens. My dear reader, can you
‘wonder at it that I object to call these fellow
-creatures ‘*dumb” ?—Dr. Immanuel Pfeiffer in Our
sHome Rights.

On our farm we

_A Strange Animal

The West Indies migratory crab is the only
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Friends

LIGHTS AND SHADOWS
OF HUMANE WORK

A LEAGUE KITTEN.

The Humane Societies everywhere are unfortu-
nately dependent upon the spirit of judges and
jurors to help them in the work of preventing
cruelty. We frequently hear of cases of great
cruelty that are brought before the court and either
entirely dismissed or so slight a fine is given that
it can have no effect in deterring men from repeat-
ing the cruelty. Here, for example, are a few typ-
ical cases.

In Burlington, Vermont, J. G. Gillander of East
Montpelier was arrested for beating a sick horse
so that he fell on the road and died. The. horse
was trying to haul a load of wood. The jury for
some incomprehensible reason, but probably be-
cause cases of cruelty do not appeal to them, ac-
quitted Gillander.

The Pasadena Humane Society thought they
had a strong case against Frank Turner, who tied
a rope around a horse’s tongue in such a way that
the tongue was cut out and the horse had to be
shot. Judge Rossiter would not convict the man
because he said the constable was “prejudiced.”
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with more regard for the protection of horses from
fiendishly cruel drivers.

A man in Philadelphia who left his mules stand-
ing uncovered outside a saloon for four hours un-
til they were actually numb with the cold was
fined ten dollars, which will not be likely to prevent
him from enjoying another carouse when he feels
like it. 4

In Alexander, New York, a wealthy resident left
his horses in an exposed field without food or water
until complained of by the S. P. C. A. This
case was dismissed without any fine.

A man in Rochester beat his dog cruelly to spite
his wife until the neighbors interfered. He was
arrested and the case dismissed with a ten-dollar
fine. The result was that he has had to be arrested
again for abusing his wife, but even now it is doubt-
ful if he is dealt: with as he should be for the
safety of his wife and the community.

An article in the Dunkirk, New York, Herald
tells in a comic manner about the scene on the
streets, when two dogs, first one and soon after an-
other, came frantically running along the sidewalks,
colliding with passers-by with large tin cans tied
to their tails. No arrests had been made for this
cruelty, but it is possible the perpetrators could
not be found.

In the clippings on my desk I have recently re-
ceived from the clipping bureau I count about
twenty more records of cruelty to horses and dogs,
some of them extreme cases, but not more than two
or_three dealt with by the law with any degree of
justice to the suffering and tortured animals.

In Louisville, Kentucky, twenty dog fights were
held secretly ina barn. These fights were ‘‘to a
finish,” which means that one of the dogs must be
killed or so badly hurt that he cannot fight any

_ longer, or he must “yelp” with pain, in which case his
“owner usually beats him to death or kicks him out

in disgust because he has disappointed him. How
greatly we stand in need of humane education of
the young! The humane societies should never
cease their efforts to make humanity an important
part of the education of children until success

crowns their efforts.

The tide of education and progress may be com-
ing in, but we certainly seem to be on or under the

_ gun.
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receding wave as regards literature, and in no-
way is this more manifest than in that which we
see written forthe young. Taking up a November
number of The Youth’s Companion, once a stand-
ard of interesting and good reading for the young,
one of the first things my eyes lighted upon was a
painful picture of a boy standing on a rock witha
Behind him are two baby panthers which he

swimming bravely in the water which surrounds
the rock, is the mother panther, frantic at the cries
of her young, and trying to swim to their rescue.
The boy haying shot the father is now preparing to
club the mother to death, and this is ‘‘sport,”
encouraged by what has been one of our best pub-
lications for children.

Our Dumb Animals tells this story: ‘* Ernest
Whitehead captured a young seal near Anacapa
Island, California, recently, and took him on board
his ship. As the vessel started the mother seal
was noticed swimming about, howling piteously.
The little captive barked responsively. After
reaching the wharf at Santa Barbara the captive
was tied up in a jute sack and left loose on the
deck. Soon after coming to anchor the seal re-
sponded to its mother’s call by casting itself over-
board, all tied up as it was in the sack. The
mother seized the sack and with her sharp teeth
tore it open. She had followed the sloop eighty
miles.”—New York Daily Tribune, Monday,
October 23, 1899.

The contest over the Wentworth will is ended,
and humane workers will all be delighted to hear
that the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals and the American Humane
Education Society each are to receive $100,000. -
This munificent bequest of $200,000, one of the
largest, if not the largest, that any society organized
in the interests of our fourfooted friends has ever
received, must make the heart of George T.
Angell, president of both these societies which are
under one roof and one management, leap for
joy; and those who know Mr. Angell’s long and

faithful service in the cause of humanity cannot —

but rejoice that this bequest has come to these soci-
eties under his care while he is yet in the field.

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We congratulate Mr. Angell, and hope that other
millionaires will be reminded by Mr. Wentworth’s
will to leave generous bequests to humane societies,
most of which have to struggle along from year
to year carrying the burden of lack of funds and
great demands made upon them.

CARE OF OUR

USEFUL FRIENDS

The great number of horses that have been in-
jured or killed by falling this winter should incite
humane workers to greater activity in looking after
the comfort and safety of these valuable animals.
The Philadelphia American writes: ‘*Not in a
dozen years have the ambulances of the veterinari-
ans and agents of the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals been as busy as during the last
week in Philadelphia. Slipping on ice which
covers the city streets and yet has not sufficient
body to make a foothold, the animals fall, strain
themselves and are frequently so seriously injured
that it becomes necessary to kill them. Efforts of
the Women’s Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals and the Department of Public Works
in sprinkling ashes and sand over Dock and Front
streets and Delaware avenue, on slippery days,
were appreciated greatly by drivers of teams.
Agents of the society spread ashes on the ice-
coated hill from Front to Delaware avenue in Arch
street and in Front street near Dock street.
Then, under the direction of the Department
of Public Works, other slippery places in the whole-
sale district were also covered with sand, and
Director Costello granted permission to the society’s
agents to spread ashes in any portion of the city
where it was thought desirable for the relief of
horses.

An Observant Citizen says: ‘‘One of the things
that the Humane Society might get in its work
on is in seeing that horses that have to pull heavy
loads are properly shod. , Many a horse has been
injured this winter because this was not attended
to. To ask a horse to pull a heavy load on an icy
pavement without having his shoes sharp shod is
little short of criminal. From a mercenary stand-

point new shoes are cheaper than broken legs or
strained tendons.”

In New York City the condition of the streets
has been fearful. A writer in the New York
World says: *‘New Yorkers seem to be unusually
humane to their horses—until slippery days come.
Then any one walking our streets may see shock-
ing instances of unnecessary cruelty. In every
block are numbers of horses struggling wildly in
mingled pain, terror and exhaustion to keep their
feet upon the icy asphalt. Of these one will see
many go crashing to the pavement, some to be
helped up only to resume their toil; others, per-
haps more happy, to find rest in the crack of a
policeman’s revolver. The needless suffering these
horses endure is irrespective of their owners’ posi-
tions. Plunging and reeling side by side may be
seen great Percherons striving to start ponderous
drays and high-bred hackneys trying to stop fash-
ionable broughams. The distress is the same for
all. It is impossible in icy weather wholly to pre-
vent horses from slipping. But the hardships of
the poor brutes may be minimized by ‘‘roughing”
or ‘‘calking” their shoes. Those who fail to do
this fail because they are too lazy to court the.
trouble of replacing the ordinary horseshoes when
the slippery weather is over. Means should be
found to cure this form of laziness, which yearly
kills scores of horses, maims hundreds and inflicts
gratuitous misery on many thousands.

Asphait’s Effect on Horses

‘‘Mr. Cantor’s position on asphalting Park Row
is right,” says a letter in the New York Times.
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city should support him or any of the authorities
in preventing any more of the streets of New York
being covered with asphalt, What are its recom-
mendations? ‘That it is smooth and noiseless ;
that is all. What are its faults? Asphalt is im-
pervious; it prevents the noisome, unhealthy

‘gases from escaping into the air, forcing them into

houses, and, I have no doubt, causing a great deal
of sickness, It is more dusty than any pavement
ever laid down in this city. When there is a light
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slippery paste, making it hard for any horse to keep
his feet, but when a light fall of rain or of soft snow
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phalted streets show their cruelty to horses. The
struggles of the poor beasts to keep their feet or
to regain them after falling are more than enough
to make the blood of any man with any feeling
for the dumb though intelligent horse run cold.
It is a matter of surprise to me that the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has not
taken this matter up. We hear of the arrest of
men for beating and overloading their horses, but 1
have never heard of the arrest of any one for lay-
ing down an asphalt pavement on which, on a
slippery day, every horse that travels is cruelly
treated, There is no question in my mind that on
one slippery day the horses of this city suffer
more by travelling on asphalt pavements than
they do in a year by being beaten and overloaded.
It has but one redeeming quality,—its noiselessness.

‘‘Until there is some means found to make a
secure hold for horses and to ventilate it to let the
gases escape there should be no more of it laid.”—

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My white Angora cat, Kermit, comes up from
down cellar or out of doors anything but white,
sol prepare a bath for him in this way: I put
about a pint of hot water in a basin, fill it with
bran until the bran is just barely damp and warm.
Then I rub it in his fur all over him from his head
to the end of his tail, let it dry a little, make him
play while it is drying, then brush out dirt, bran
and loose hairs all together. As a result his fur
is like lamb’s wool or cotton, it is so soft, dry and
white. In this way he can be bathed without
getting cold, as a little while in the house with a
sun bath finishes the drying process.

Lovers of cats may be interested to know that
pussy often craves and requires vegetables as food.
I have a fine healthy cat which for the past two
years has eaten at least one small raw potato per day.
He knows the moment that potatoes are washed
and cut, and leaves his play or sleep to climb into
a chair by the sink and eat his raw potato. So
anxious is he that he will sit impatiently holding
up his paw. until the potato is pared. I slice the
potato very fine and feed it to him bit by bit, from
my fingers, for it is difficult for him to eat it if
the pieces are all placed in a saucer, owing to the
tendency of the thin slices to cling together.

When pussy is tormented with fleas I dust her

hair thickly with pyrethrum (Persian insect pow-
der) and then rub it in thoroughly, getting it as
near to the skin as possible, putting a generous
supply around her neck, under her fore legs and at
the root of her tail. Two or three applications
are usually sufficient to bring peace to mind and
body. Pyrethrum is entirely harmless (I think it
belongs to the feverfew family) and can be used ©
as freely as desired; it does not even make Madam
Grimalkin sick when she industriously sets to work
to lick off all she can reach.—Suggestions from
February Goodhousekeepng.

A cat should have, at least, two meals a day at
regular hours. After each feeding remove the dish,
and never use it a second time without washing it.
The quantity of food is best determined by experi-
ence. Acat cared for properly may yet sometimes
be infested by fleas, or infected by mange, which
is very contagious. For neither of these troubles
use any application of kerosene, which renders no
relief and exposes the animal to danger from fire.
For the first trouble, washing the fur and skin in
tepid water is helpful and with skilful management
quite effectual. For the latter an ointment is made
by stirring flowers of sulphur in vaseline, till the
mixture is of the consistence of thick cream; this —
rubbed with care on the affected parts will effect a
cure. Often the reappearance of the mange after
the trouble seemed over has caused doubts of the
efficacy of the applications (which should be con-
tinued till the mange disappears), but such return
of the disease is the result of repeated exposure to
contact with cats so affected.

How to Give a Cat Medicine

A New York gentleman has a very fine Angora
cat, and so fine a specimen of her kind that she is
famous in a large circle of fashionable folk. She
is not rugged in health, yet she cannot be persuaded
to take physic. It has been put in her milk, it has
been mixed with her meat, it has even been rudely —
and violently rubbed in her mouth, but never has
she been deluded or forced into swallowing any of
it. One day a green Irish girl appeared among
the household servants. She heard about the fail-
ure to treat the cat. ‘‘Sure,” said she, ‘‘give me
the medicine and some lard and I’ll warrant she’ll
be ating all I give her.” She mixed the powder

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and the grease and smeared it on the cat’s sides.
Pussy at once licked both sides clean and swallowed
all the physic. ‘Faith,’ said the servant girl,

‘‘everybody in Ireland does know how to give
medicine to a cat.”

LEAGUE NEWS

AND NOTES m6

The annual business meeting of the League took
place at 51 Carver street, Tuesday, February 2,
and officers for the year were elected. No change
was made excepting the name of Mr. H. C. Mer-
win, which is well known by many lovers of the
horse, was added to the Board of Directors. Mr.
Merwin is the author of an excellent book on the
horse, and within a short time two valuable articles
from his pen have appeared, one in the Atlantic
Monthly and one in Country Life in America, the
latter finely illustrated.

Mr. Merwin is equally interested in the smaller
animals and has brought many homeless dogs to
the League since it was first established, one of
these being the old St. Bernard to whom we are
giving a season of happiness at the League, who
was found wandering on the streets in a starving
condition by Mr. Merwin.

The League has had several most generous gifts
within a month. From one member, one thou-
sand dollars, to be used toward the paymen on the
Carver street houses, given in memory of Kenneth ;
from Mrs. Mary F. Blake a check for $525, be-
ing the proceeds of the bridge
ment Mrs. Blake got up at the Somerset; from
another member $50; $40 from two visitors who
wished to pay the board of the old St. Bernard and
a fox terrier that it seemed a kindness to keep for
a while; $60 from a member for subscriptions to
Our Fourfooted Friends to be sent to certain indi-
viduals, schools and reading rooms designated, and
$100 to make a life member of a friend. These
and some smaller sums have helped wonderfully to
keep up the courage of the managers of the
League, who feel the burden of the increased ex-
penses incident upon our larger quarters.

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BOBS.

Bobs, a League Dog

‘‘T am sure I owe you an account of the little
Yorkshire terrier we carried home from the League
more than six weeks ago. Then he was a mere
puppy, very innocent and unsophisticated in the
Now he trots
out to meet us with all the savoir faire of years of

experience. He has lost the tawny shades of his

curious ways of the human world.

infancy and is now a dark iron gray, his hair being
very soft and silky about his head, though rough
and wiry on his body. His long, rabbit-like ears
give his countenance an astonishing variety of ex-
pressions. Flung back over his head in despair,
fear or penitence, they make him look like an
ancient monkey ; poised aloft, with their tips touch-
ing, they give him the aspect of Johnny Cotton-
tail; and perked saucily forward they turn him
into an exact copy of Sir Joshua Reynolds’s ‘Im-
pudence.’ He is full of mischief, especially if he
is left alone in my room, which is his dwelling
place by day and night. Should he be left to his
own devices for more than half an hour he sets his
wits to work to see what he can do as an example
His last
performance was to open my shoe box with his
nose and drag out the contents one by one. When
I came in a row of boots, shoes and slippers
stretched from one door to the other, while the
infant sat overwhelmed apparently with remorse
in my favorite chair. I have only to say,‘Naughty,
naughty dog!’ to reduce him to abject meekness,
but the slightest inflection indicating a relaxing of
my disapproval causes him to fly at me in a par-
oxysm of delight.

to me not to leave him solitary again.

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‘¢At night when the lamps are lighted he begins
his watch for his master. Every train from Boston
causes him to rush to the window, push up the
shade and crane his neck as far as he can to see
the arrivals. He is never deceived by a train
going the other way; he is much too clever for
that; and the sight of his quaint little face pressed
close against the glass, peering out into the night
in a tremor of nervous impatience, is always
pathetic as well as amusing, for there are many
trains between five and eight, and there is some-
times disappointment unspeakable if the master is
late.

‘We have named him Bobs because ‘he’s little
and he’s wise,’ but he answers to other titles which

seem to fit. He is very well, very happy and a

bundle of energy and activity. He has a long run
with us twice a day and is always in our company,
so that we can regulate his food and his associates
—quite as important in a dog’s education as in a
child’s. Two friends, one a huge collie, the other
a warlike Irish terrier, come daily to visit him.
The terrier called at eleven Pp. M. the other even-

ing, not being under strict discipline at home, but

late visits are not encouraged, and the fun is quite
fast and furious enough in the daytime. Bobs
stands on his hind feet to bring his face on a level
with the collie’s and then boxes Jack’s ears, first
one and then the other, with his saucy paws.
Jack patiently endures the buffeting for a reason-
able time, and then with a single wave of his
feathery paw sends the little chap head over heels
in the snow or the dead grass.

‘sWhen the dinner bell sounds Bobs is on the
spot in a twinkling, though well he knows he must
wait for his bones till the meal is over. Ina cer-
tain corner of the dining room he crouches with
_ eager eyes and at the words ‘Now, Bobs!’ is ready
for his share.

‘‘Altogether you see we have a good report to
make of him, and I hope he could send as good a
one of us. I feel positive that he would if he
could, for his devotion is quite open and candid.
—Yours very truly, M. A. L. Lane.”

A number of unfortunate puppies have been
taken from the streets. One was found partly
frozen. Another was foaming at the mouth in a fit
when brought into the house. Another is a lively
little beauty for whom a home will be found.

Letters to the Editor

According to Mr. Riis, the firemen of New York
City are retired on half pay when past service.

" Late one afternoon recently, a teamster got stuck
with a pair of horses at the head of Cottage street.
One horse was down and the man was pursuing
the methods usual in such cases, when a stranger
happened along and, observing the situation, told
the teamster he.must stop using such cruelty, that
the horses had been overloaded and were tired out,
and he must put them up at a near-by stable. Of
course he refused, saying, ‘*The firm would never
stand that,” whereupon the stranger took the horses
in charge, drove them to the stable and telephoned
to the firm.

I have a cat that developed a skin disease on
which no outward application had the slightest
effect. Finally, her condition was such I feared I
should have to chloroform her for her own sake.
As a last resort I tried Humphrey’s Specific II. In
a week’s time there was a marked improvement
and in less than a month she was entirely cured.
It seemed like a miracle.—A. F. Lunt, West Med-
ford, January 28, 1904.

My Cat

Smut is our cat. I got him up in the country
one summer where I was stopping for two weeks.
I named him Smut, because he has black ‘ssmut”
on his nose. He
will stand up on his hind legs and rattle the handle

He has some very cute tricks.

of the door for somebody to come and let him in or
out.

In the morning Smut will come upstairs and cry
for somebody to come and take him in their room
with them. At dinner he gets up on my brother’s
shoulder to see what there is for dinner or if he can
get something to eat.

It is very funny to see the games that he makes
up playing with a wooden ball that we gave him
to play with. He has a favorite chair that he gets

on whenever he can, and it is worn to pieces by his

scratching and pulling on it. And last of all he
will kiss us when we ask him to. I think he is a
fine cate-—Richard Greenleaf Turner [ten years
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14 Our Fourfooted Friends

There is something very subtle in the action of
Homeopathic Remedies on animals, who seem
more susceptible to their action than human beings.

The lives of many pets have been saved by a
Otis Clapp
and Son, of Boston or Providence, will gladly give
information of their use.

timely dose of one of these remedies.

The winter is fast passing away. Before it is
gone will not our members make a decided effort
to help along the work by getting new members
and subscribers to this paper? Many letters are
sent from all parts of this country and occasion-
ally one from London, Wales, and other foreign
parts praising Our Fourfooted Friends and telling
of the good it is doing. Will not you who read
this resolve to get at least one new subscriber?
It must be borne in mind by all who are interested
in humane work or humaue education that
money is essential if good work is to be done.
Who will help us? We must make a united effort
and a strong effort if we are going to meet all that
is required of us.

CARBO-
NEGUS

_For HOME, STABLE
and KENNEL

UMB animals suffer
more from ignorance

and carelessness
than from intended cruelty.

Cleanliness is the first
important step toward
health.

Health means comfort
and contentment.

CARBO-NEGUS is the friend of humanity and a
greater friend to the Dog, the Cat and the Horse.
CARBO-NEGUS cures many ills, prevents others, and
preserves health. Trial bottle can be had at your drug-
gist’s or grocer’s free. Ask for it.

P.S. They don’t care to give away a bottle of
CARBO-NEGUS, because they don’t make a profit on
what they give away. Insist on their giving you at
least one trial bottle. You will then know whether you
want to use it and buy it.

They can all have trial bottles without cost,
Druggists or Grocers.

A. C. DANIELS,

BOSTON, = MASSACHUSETTS

DR. A. C. DANIELS

DEAN OF PRESS CLIPPERS.

frank A. Burrelle Has
Business to Surprising Proportions,

The New York
Journalist editori-
ally says: ‘‘ With
the passing of Henry
Romeike, Frank
Burrelle becomes the
. dean of the Press
Clippers, having the
second oldest and
largest bureau. Le
rot est morte, vive
le roi!”

.The press clipping industry was orig-
inated by the late Henry Romeike. His
idea was to cater to the personality,
aiming to supply artists, writers, actors
and other persons in public lifewith com-
ment concerning themselves. Thisidea
‘vas developed most successfully by Mr.
Romeike; but Mr. Burrelle, a lawyer by
education and a business man of wide
range of experience, developed the idea
to cover a much broader field. In the
papers he found suggestions for the mer-
chant, the contractor, and the supply
house. He placed persons looking for
opportunities to sell their goods in com-
munication with probable buyers.

Many large corporations (industrial
and otherwise) pay large sums of money
to secure publicity, employing press
agents for that purpose, and through the
Burrelle Bureau they are able to keep
tab successfully on the work performed
by their representatives.

The ramification and development of
the press clipping industry is not nearly
understood nor appreciated by the aver-
age public, but that Mr. Burrelle has
developed the industry far beyond the
original purpose of the pioneer is readily
conceded by all who-have come in con-
tact with him personally.—THE EDITOR
AND PUBLISHER.

Developed the

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dogs and puppies do much better and are
healthier when fed on Old Grist Mill Dog
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and it agrees with them, keeping their coats
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